The Uprooted

Chinnamul

The earliest documentation of the refugee crisis caused by the Partition.

  • Director

    Nemai Ghosh

  • With

    Prematosh Roy, Gangapada Basu, Sova Sen, Ritwik Ghatak

  • India 1951. 102min. Total running time 127min

  • Digital 4K (restoration)

  • English subtitles

Uprooted is a pioneering portrayal of the human cost of Bengal Partition. Police seized the script during shooting as government didn’t want this story told. It follows refugees fleeing East Pakistan to Kolkata, capturing displacement with stark realism. Blending documentary footage into the narrative, it is an early record of forced migration, hardship and the struggle to rebuild shattered lives.

+ Ustad Alauddin Khan

India 1965. No on-screen credit. 25min. Digital. With English subtitles

A documentary short on Ustad Alauddin Khan, founder of Maihar school of Indian classical music.